Look at our memory; is it not true that the memory is fallen? Oh! Ungodly men prosper well enough in this world, they root themselves, and spread themselves like green bay trees: it is their native soil; but the Christian needs the hothouse of grace to keep himself alive at all and out in the world he is like some strange foreign bird, native of a warm and sultry clime, that being let loose here under our wintry skies is ready to perish. God's power will be with her heralds, God's might shall be with her armies, and the earth shall soon submit, and Christ shall reign for ever and ever. But, remember, Christ is coheir with you in this. I want to sit down, and suck all the sweetness out of this blessed truth: "It is Christ that died." So the little volume is now ready, and I shall be a happy woman if God will use it to make music in any worn and weary heart. You know how thrice he assailed him with those temptations which are most likely to be attractive to poor humanity, but Jesus overcame them all. He thought that a sufficient reason why he should neither lie nor cheat. "Roll ye away the stone," saith he, and it is done; and now, listen to him; he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" Lo! What a mind that must be! Now Jesus by his death paid all the debt; to the utmost farthing that was due from us to God Christ did pay by his death. We shall have no need to envy angels, for what are they but ministering spirits, servants in our Father's halls; but we are sons, and sons of no inferior order, no sons of a secondary rank like Abraham's children born of Keturah, or like the son of the bondwoman, but we are the Isaacs of God, born according to the promise, heirs of all that he hath, a seed beloved of the Lord for ever. Does he contribute anything to his new life? Therefore do we say to that law, "Law, thou hast nothing to do with me; I am 'not under law, but under grace.' A man might as well try to dispute him out of the fact of his existence as out of that equally sure fact that he has been born again, and that by gracious adoption he has been taken into the family of God. You know that every sinner is guilty of the murder of Christ." Bible > Romans > Chapter 8 > Verse 35 Library Free Downloads eBibles Romans 8:35 To atone for the sin of my soul there is the sorrow of his soul; if I poured out my soul in sin, he poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors. Did he not say, "In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world?" I am not so much afraid of dying as I am of sinning; that is ten times worse than death. This truth divides itself thus: it is the will of God that conforms us to Christ's image rather than our own will. Look! The blood of heaven runs in thy veins; thou art one of the blood royal of eternity a son of God, descendant of the King of kings. Be patient, and you only feel the rod as it is in God's hands, but when you are impatient and clutch at the rod, you briny it down with the weight of God's hand and your own hand too. "The children of the flesh, these are not the children of God." If Christ owed anything to the justice of God by reason of his suretyship engagements, he would not be at God's right hand: but he owes nothing whatever. We have seen that chapters 5-8 have a kind of sandwich structure. It is a bold, brave challenge; but it never could have been uttered by Paul if it had not been accompanied by the next sentence, "It is Christ that dies." But the man that yearns after more holiness, the man that sighs after God, the man that groans after perfection, the man that is discontented with his sinful self, the man that feels he cannot be easy till he is made like Christ, that is the man who is blessed indeed. Ask him whether he is happy and content. Why the Lord may use any words. He was happy enough in the bosom of his father's household, but idolatry crept into it, and when God called Abraham, he called him alone and blessed him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and said to him, "Go forth, Abraham!" By "good," he understands spiritual good. The man who uttered this challenge, "Who is he that condemneth?" You were very low down, brother; we had to stoop to call to you; the waters of God's waves and billows seemed to have gone over you; you have been down to the depths, and I have been there with you. It is as when two dear friends lovingly embrace with their arms around each other's neck, there is a double link binding them together. It is a sad, sad world. Amen. The tail feathers of pride should be pulled out of our prayers, for they need only the wing feathers of faith; the peacock feathers of poetical expression are out of place before the throne of God. This is a good seaworthy vessel: "It is Christ that died." This truth seems to me to have struck its roots into all the other truths of Scripture and to have twisted itself among the granite rocks which are the very foundation of our hope. I shall not enlarge further, except to say that our glory is not yet revealed, and that is another subject of sighing. You may come on, battalions of the adversary, with all your terrible might sweeping hypocrites and deceivers before you, like chaff before the wind, but as many as are linked to Christ by his eternal love shall stand firm against you, like the solid rocks against the billows of the sea." Go not into thy brother's house in the day of thine adversity. Can you heartily say that you can never rest satisfied till you. Oh! Oh! Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" If ever there lived a man who has reason to be grateful to Almighty God, I think I am that man. I knew there was a work; I knew I prayed, and cried, and groaned for mercy, but I did not know that was the Lord's work; I half thought it was my own. Into predestination itself I will not now pry. First, God sent his Son as a sacrificial lamb to absorb the penalty for our sinsto make forgiveness possible. "The carnal mind," he says, "is ENMITY against God." Sit thee down; rest in peace; lift up thine eye of hope, and sing thy song with fond anticipation. Now, this is not my assertion, it is the declaration of God's word, and you must leave it if you do not believe it; but quarrel not with me, it is my Master's message; and it is true of every one of you men, women, and children, and myself too that if we have not been regenerated and converted, if we have not experienced a change of heart, our carnal mind is still at enmity against God. Though thou hast changed a thousand times, he has not changed once; though thou hast shifted thy intentions, and thy will, yet he has not once swerved from his eternal purpose, but still has held thee fast. These are God's words; if any man doth cavil at them, let him cavil; he rejecteth the testimony of God against himself. Let me say now, before I turn from this point, that it is possible for a man to know whether God has called him or not, and he may know it too beyond a doubt. In the volume of the Book it is written of him: "I delight to do thy will, O my God! Has the Spirit operated in my heart in a manner to which flesh and blood never can attain? Now, observe, that this conformity to Christ lies in several things. I think you will see that, like links in a chain, these different truths draw each other on the spirit of adoption proves the fact of adoption; by the act of adoption we are children; if children then heirs; if heirs, heirs of God; but since there is another heir, we must therefore be joint heirs with Christ Jesus. You will notice here, my beloved, that there are two witnesses in court two who are ready to prove our filiation to the eternal God. Side by side with you there sits an ungodly person; you two have been brought up together, you have lived in the same house, you have enjoyed the same means of grace, you are converted, he is not; will you please to tell me what has made the difference? But he is much more than this. We are married to him, and we shall never be divorced. So, then, it follows that if there be any flaw in the will, so that it be not valid, if it be not rightly signed, sealed, and delivered, then it is no more valid for Christ than it is for us. The snow is numbing his limbs, and his soul is breathed out with many a groan. Now, at the present moment all things work. Paul. As the Carthaginian, who might tread the desolate site of his much-loved city, would shed many tears when he saw it laid in heaps by the Romans; or as the Jew, wandering through the deserted streets of Jerusalelm, would lament that the ploughshare had marred the beauty and the glory of that city which was the joy of the whole earth; so ought we to mourn for ourselves and our race, when we behold the ruins of that goodly structure which God had piled, that creature, matchless in symmetry, second only to angelic intellect, that mighty being, man when we behold how he is "fallen, fallen, fallen, from his high estate," and lies in a mass of destruction. Go to www.ccontario.com for an . man, there is an answer to thy inquiry; the book cannot be opened, but God himself hath published many a page thereof. If he had not paid the debt, he would have remained in the prison of the grave; but he rose again. We are reduced to such straits that we must pray, but what shall be the particular subject of prayer we cannot for a while make out. He is delivered and I am delivered too. Those in heaven, have, as it were, stolen there. Now why call Zaccheus? Even so did our Lord Jesus Christ. EP-1975 784dbl.col.pp. 1. He means that, if we were tempted by the love of life to deny Christ' we should be strengthened so that we should not deny him even to save our lives, for his people have been brave enough in this respect in all times. Is he a victor? It is an intense regret to me that I cannot present it to some of you. I beseech you, members of churches, deacons, or whatever you may be, lay this to heart. The apostle tells us that not only is there a groan from creation, but this is shared in by God's people. So, you see, I cannot help wondering what the "things to come" will be for you who are here. The whole creation is said to be groaning for its share in that freedom. Having summarily disposed of all of them, Paul adds, "nor things present." I can stop his accusation with this perpetual care of Jesus for his people." And see what it is that we are heirs of. If any confront you with other confidences, still keep you to this almighty please, "Christ has died." When bowing before his throne we can boldly say "Abba Father." The excellency of the power is in the doctrine, and not in my preaching. Now that is the way to act; to feel and acknowledge that you are a debtor; when there is a thing to be done, to do it, and to say, "Do not thank me for it, I have only done what I ought to have done; I have only paid the debt that I owed.". Dost thou abide in his commandments, and desire to be conformed unto his Image? They are well put together by that master of eloquence, Paul, and they were moreover, dictated by the Holy Spirit, who telleth man how to speak aright. The evil one may whisper, "If thou be the son of God." II. Death hath no more dominion over him and no more dominion over me; his deliverance is mine, his freedom mine for ever. All the saints make up one body in Christ, who is the Head of the body, and the common Centre of their unity. That secret we must keep separate from all earthly things; that treasure which he has committed to us we must watch both night and day against those profane intruders who would defile the consecrated ground. Speak the truth! And if we be his sons, are we not thereby bound to love, serve, and obey him? And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body." We will go into the next. C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) He died for me. Here am I, a creature of a day, a mortal born to die, but yet an immortal! When Napoleon was on the island of St. Helena, he was watched by many guards, but after many complaints, he enjoyed comparative liberty, and walked alone. Now here is a proof that the Christian cannot be condemned, because the blood is on the mercy-seat. There is no difficulty in understanding my text; it needs scarcely any explanation. This also is a truth full of sacred refreshment: hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour. It is a question often asked, "What part of man was injured by the fall?" But the greatness of our talents is only the amount of our debt; for, the more we have, the more we owe. holy Immanuel, exalted as thou art, thy co-heirs here below begin by faith to partake of thy glory. It is a strong bow, and therefore very hard to draw; indeed, it requires more strength than the urchin can summon to bend it. It resets the dislocated bones of society, rivets the bonds of friendship, and welds the broken metal of manhood into one united mass. Five Divine acts, through each of which in regular succession the purpose of salvation advances to its accomplishment, are linked by St. Paul into one golden chain, of which one end is let down out of the unknown past, and the other returns to lose itself in the unknown future. But oh! May you be holy, harmless, sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Sin is great, but Christ is greater. Will he be received with triumph by his Father? It is not black, but blackness; it is not at enmity, but enmity itself; it is not corrupt, but corruption; it is not rebellious, it is rebellion; it is not wicked, it is wickedness itself. "Thou madest him to have dominion over all the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea." Now, Christian, consider how thou art a debtor to thy God. The gospel softened the breast of Paul, and made him forget all national animosities, otherwise, one of the down-trodden race would not have called his oppressor, "brother." No Jew was ever content with the first-fruits. Last Lord's day, I thought by God's good help I was enabled to persuade some of you that the death of Christ was an argument too potent to be ever denied an argument for the salvation of all for whom he died. You may walk the broad acres of this round globe, and never look upon a single spot that is not yours. He to whom all these things are but as nothing, gives himself up to the inheritance of his people. Thus we are sighing that our entire manhood, in its trinity of spirit, soul, and body, may be set free from the last vestige of the fall; we long to put off corruption, weakness, and dishonour, and to wrap ourselves in incorruption, in immortality, in glory, in the spiritual body which the Lord Jesus Christ will bestow upon all his people. Everywhere the earth works; mountains work: nature in its inmost bowels is at work; even the center of the great heart of the world is ever beating; sometimes we discover its working in the volcano and the earthquake, but even when most still all things are ever working. What contrasts we have in the seventh verse! R.C. Well, my dear brother, you up there on the topmost bough, you will not frighten me with all your heights, though I cannot get up there, and I could not stay there if I could get up so high. They tell me, that they of old maintained the truth, and preached it, in the midst of fire and sword that they bore death in defence of the cause of God, that they might hand down his holy word inviolate to us! Fain would I picture the apostle as he appeared when he was uttering it. Charity to the poor is a debt. says one, "I don't think anything of that, then." 17. His first public appearance, when he came to the waters of baptism, was signalled by a voice out of the excellent glory, which said, "this is my beloved Son," and the descending Spirit, like a dove, rested upon him. There were many better men in the city than he. Thirdly, we are to be conformed to the image of Christ in our experience. Even so doth our Father in heaven know all about our poor baby talk, for our prayer is not much better. He said within himself, "Does Jesus love me? I tell thee No; Christ never called the righteous; and if he has not called thee, and if he never does call thee, thou art not elect, and thou and thy self-righteousness must be subject to the wrath of God, and cast away eternally. Would that he would be merciful and pass them by without an atonement! I wish that all here present had a share in my blessed text. Be not deceived; it is not so; things are not what they seem; "all things work together." 2. "Holy brethren partakers of the heavenly calling." ", Note the second phrase, which contains also a description of the Christian "the called according to his purpose." Then, beloved, I have reason to hope that thou hast been called of God, for it is a holy calling wherewith God doth call his people. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: It seems a great change in this chapter from the sad tone at the beginning to the joyous note at the end; but, indeed, there is no contradiction between the two. My illustrations do not touch the mystery, but set forth the grace. This entry was posted in New Park Street - Vol 5 and tagged believer's challenge, gospel, Jesus died rose again, spurgeon podcast, spurgeon romans 8, Spurgeon sermon 256 on February 11, 2020 by zachkispert. I do consider that in this there is an argument why no believer ever can perish. The greatest piety cannot preserve a man from growing old, and although in grace, he may be "like a young cedar, fresh and green," yet the body will have its grey hairs, and the strong man will be brought to totter on the staff. You are quite conscious that this is not your rest. This glorious truth is most sweet when earth's honeyed words are taken away, and most lustrous when we no longer attempt to illuminate her with human language. It is as when a man doth marry. Hear the voice of the Redeemer: "look unto me, and be ye saved." You have not come of age, so you do not possess it yet, but the day shall come when Christ shall come to this earth, and take possession of it, and then his saints shall reign with him. He may know it as surely as if he read it with his own eyes; nay, he may know it more surely than that, for if I read a thing with my eyes, even my eyes may deceive me, the testimony of sense may be false, but the testimony of the Spirit must be true. Blessed be his name, he will not refuse you even then, if you will but believe him! What the wealthiest man has is not his own, but God's, and if it be God's then it is Christ's, and if Christ's, then his children's; and Christ's children are often those who are hungry, and thirsty, and destitute, and afflicted, and tormented. Happy in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get the fulness of what is promised him. No suit in law can stand against Christ; it were idle to dream it for a moment He has satisfied God's law, magnified it and made it honorable; he has discharged all the debts which as surety he took upon himself. Such a scene did not occur, but had there been any remonstrance given by men you may easily conceive that such would have been Saul's answer. First, we are called upon to speak of the truthfulness of this great statement. Moreover, the appetites of the body have a natural affinity to that which is sinful. A passage from Galatians iii. It is astonishing how much gratitude a man will feel to you if you have been only the instrument of doing him good; but how little gratitude he feels to God, the first cause of all! all his wisdom is engaged in our behalf. Wherefore, let us be encouraged to go on, and fight against everything that is evil, especially in ourselves, and tread down all the powers of darkness, since nothing can stand against us while Christ is sor us; and for us he must be for ever and ever. He died for thee, if now thou dost confess thy guilt. I know the world turns this into ridicule and says, "That the hypocrite loves persecution;" no, not the hypocrite, but the true believer; he feels that though the suffering must ever be painful, yet for Christ's sake, it becomes so glorious that the pain is all forgotten. Satan was no friend to Christ, but finding him in the desert he came to him with this accursed "if" "If thou be the Son of God." But we may be permitted to live on to extreme old age; do you dread it? Still the accuser continues reminding us of our past life: "you have trusted in others, and turned away from Christ; you went everywhere before you came to him." You may have heard also the story of that eminent martyr who was wont always to say, "All things work together for good." This call is sent to the predestinated, and to them only; they by grace hear the call, obey it, and receive it. In verses 1-11, Paul contrasted those "who live according to the flesh" with . He has not done enough "never enough;" conscience always says, "this is not perfection; it ought to have been better," Salvation for enemies must be by an ambassador, by an atonement, yea, by Christ. He goes into the tent of King Pyrrhus with the intention to put him to death, because he is the enemy of his country; he slays the wrong man; Pyrrhus orders him to be taken captive. Ah, it was the groan of death! And he just paraphrased it in his own dialect like this "My arm is always strong, and my sickle always sharp, when there is no harvest, and I think I could mow many an acre when there is no grass; but when the harvest is on I am weak, and when the grass groweth then my scythe is blunt." It needs no proof, for since it is written in God's word, we, as Christian men, are bound to bow before it. May he help us to expound, as he has already given us the passage to explain. Added to this you must also be the heir of persecution. So, beloved friends, there is nothing in death to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Now, I consider these things as being a very mean display of wisdom, compared with what is to come in a hundred years, and very small compared with what might have been, if man's intellect had continued in its pristine condition. We find that the word "know" is frequently used in Scripture, not only for knowledge, but also for favor, love, and complacency. It is an ugly knock that a man's heart gives when it smites him. We are saved by hope. The joint heirship reaches from the gloomy patina of deep affliction up to the bright ineffable splendor of the throne of bliss, nor can any man reverse the record. Thus, that doubt is answered by the same all-powerful argument: "It is Christ that died.". But, beloved, all that belongs to Christ belongs to Christ's people. A mother will say, "It is rebellious children who are breaking my heart." Your very happiness makes you groan; your joy, like a swollen spring, longs to leap up like some Iceland Geyser, climbing to the skies, and it heaves and groans within the bowels of your spirit for want of space and room by which to manifest itself to men. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according the to will of God." "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.". He knows enough of our conduct to be able, truthfully, to bring to our memory much that might condemn us. If I read in the Scriptures that in the most heroic acts of faith God the Holy Ghost helpeth his people, I can understand it; if I read that in the sweetest music of their songs when they worship best, and chant their loftiest strains before the Most High God, the Spirit helpeth them, I can understand it; and even if I hear that in their wrestling prayers and prevalent intercessions God the Holy Spirit helpeth them, I can understand it: but I bow with reverent amazement, my heart sinking into the dust with adoration, when I reflect that God the Holy Ghost helps us when we cannot speak, but only groan. The psalmist said, "I am so troubled that I cannot I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart"; but he added, "Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee." So is it also with us. Now this is the cause of our groaning and mourning, for the soul is so married to the body that when it is itself delivered from condemnation, it sighs to think that its poor friend, the body, should still be under the yoke. But this know, O man, whatever thou sayest of this doctrine, it is a stone upon which, if any man fall, he shall suffer loss, but if it fall upon him it shall grind him to powder. III. The next argument for making us sure that they will speed is this that they are "the mind of the Spirit." My God, thou art my all in all the circle where my passions move, the centre of my soul. There is but one that can claim the heir's rights, and the heir's title. This will appear in two ways. Yea, more, ye shall bring him to the house of prayer; ye shall make him sit constantly under the clearest preaching of the word, where he shall hear the doctrines of grace in all their purity, attended by a holy unction; but if that holy unction does not rest upon him, all shall be vain; he shall still come most regularly, but, like the pious door of the chapel, that turneth in and out, he shall still be the same; having an outside superficial religion, and his carnal mind shall still be at enmity against God. If today I am enabled to say I am called, then my boat is like the ferry-boat in the middle of the stream. There is one thing I have noticed, in looking over the old levitical law, under the description of the tabernacle. If I promulgated the doctrine on my own authority, I could not blame you if you should turn against me, and reject it; but when, on the authority of Holy Scripture, I propound it, God forbid that any man should quarrel therewith. We cannot be precisely as God is, yet as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly, whatever that image may be. "Complete the sentence, lictors;" and their heads are smitten off in the father's presence. His own dear Son came, and stood in my place, and took my sin upon him. 14:1 - 15:14. God is well pleased with the death of Christ as the vindication of his justice, and for Christ's sake he says to me, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." If we are born into his family it is a miracle of mercy. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." but you have aforetime refused Christ. Ah, my hearers, what would you give if you could obtain this confidence? So far as mere prescience goes, every man is foreknown, and yet no one will assert that all men are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus. Time and ability alike fail us to speak of this. I. "Look," says one, "there is sin. We do not like groans: our ears are much too delicate to tolerate such dreary sounds; but not so the great Father of spirits. He standeth up and beareth his own faithful testimony; but some great one of the land some nobleman who lives near rises, stands in the witness box, and confirms his witness. Happy, happy man! Have you forgotten that he had shame and spitting, the reproach, the rebuke of men, and that he conceived all those to be greater riches than all the treasures of this world? The will, if valid for one, is valid for all. To have anything to do with a great man is thought by some persons to be a distinguished mark of honor; to be set down in a will as co-heir with some great prince or noble would be considered indeed a great thing; but what honor is conferred on thee, believer, to be joint heir with the King of kings, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace! Would you have David's crown, but not his caves of Adullam, and rocks of the wild goats? weary slaves of sin, are not your ways the paths of folly? You cannot imagine, surely, that God is to allow heathens to eclipse his children. Dost thou love God, not with lip-language, but with heart-service? Speak of pedigrees, the glories of heraldry thou hast more than heraldry could ever give thee, or all the pomp of ancestry could ever bestow. There were no seats whatever provided tor the priests. he hath made us kings. The law of God was a good law, a just and holy law. 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